Gettysburg Reenactment canceled because of Glenn Beck’s visit to Gettysburg, but promised for 2021

fox43.com ^ | 1/16/20 | J. Bittner

[eartick]

it appears the reenactment is relocating to richmond va this year...

Hell yeah, Molon Lave

[shelterguy]

“”””””””Glenn Beck is he still on air?”””””””””””””

He is on the air in Minneapolistan in the mornings. He is very annoying.

But I have to tune in because next Tuesday he will have a hugh earth shattering announcement. You can’t miss it. It is a game changer. And it is an exclusive thingy that only he knows about. DO NOT MISS IT.

[Russ]

I attended on of the reenactments several years ago. It took place on a farm field well outside of Gettysburg. They made an announcement before the "show" that no reenacters were actually being killed so as not to traumatize the children in attendance who might think otherwise.

The whole event was poorly done and a waste of time and money.

[Salamander]

Every year, big ass Gettysburg Bike Week manages to deal with tens of thousands of rowdy bikers partying down.

It’s a mystery.

[Salamander]

He once had a hit song about termites or something

[Salamander]

Come and wash it?

What?

:D

[sphinx]

I was chatting with a reenactor at a Roundtable meeting last week. He says a lot of reenactments are getting cancelled. They draw protests, which scares local politicians and the small town business community which are usually the good partners of the organizers. There have been pepper spray incidents, and two crude pipe bombs were found at a reenactment last year. This is just more of the Antifa types attempting to sterilize the public square and eradicate all history that isn’t Zinn-based. I don’t think that putting our heads down and hoping it will pass is a winning strategy. We’re going to have to fight these people sooner or later (non-violently, I hope, but …).

[Elsie]

Surely all 27 folks that are going to Beck’s little party would not impact local resources THAT much.

[Elsie]

He used to be Catholic - not he’s Mormon.

[Elsie]

Time to quit RE-enacting; and just ACT!!!

[ASA Vet]

Who cares about Glen Beck?

Frito-Lay

[vetvetdoug]

These are all dying because Confederate reenactors are now designated as Hate Groups

The Southern Poverty Law Center is at the head of this attack along with the MSM. States with minorities at the head of the tax departments are disallowing 501-3C status to Confederate Historical organizations. The vilification of the Confederates within the universities is also taking a toll with academics labeling any Southern reenactor as a racist. City politicians trolling for votes manipulate the laws to remove Southern hero statues from their cities. The attack upon the Confederate history is the template for the left to attack the 2nd Amendment and it is working.

[mass55th]

I was a regular visitor to Gettysburg, but I never went to any of the reenactments. I preferred spending my time walking the battlefields, than standing or sitting to watch any reenactments. I think I went to three different ones. One at Appomattox, one at Boone Hall Plantation, S.C., and one in freezing January weather on James Island, S.C. to reenact the Battle of Grimball's Causeway/Landing, that was being hosted by friends who were at the time involved in starting up the South Carolina Battleground Preservation Trust. That was over 20 years ago. They lived on James Island, and had several Confederate batteries and forts on, and around the island that have eventually been preserved. The complex they lived in had Battery #5 in the middle of it, and that was the first site they were able to get preserved. They also found the site of the "Swamp Angel" Battery, and were able to get easements for its protection.

The 55th Massachusetts was stationed on James Island, and Folly Island, S.C. While doing research at Cornell, I came across a collection belonging to the Assistant Surgeon for the unit. It was a gold mine with maps, drawings, a diary, photos, etc., and a large part of it had to deal with the battles and skirmishes that the 55th was involved in on James Island. The Doctor had gone back to James Island years later, and communicated with members of the 55th, and also some of the Confederate soldiers who were involved in the battles. There were a ton of letters between them. I used to access the Charleston newspaper online back then, and found an article about a couple of people who were trying to get a battery, and the Confederate earthworks, called Fort Lamar preserved on James Island. I managed to get the name and phone number of one of the guys from the newspaper, and called him up. I sent him all the documents (tons of it), and within a month or two, they invited me to come visit so they could show me all the sites they had discovered, and were trying to get protected. One of the guys, and his wife put me up on that trip, and every other trip I took down there. It was extremely satisfying to be able to see the sites I had read about for years. Now in my 70's, I don't get around much, and haven't been to that area in probably 15 years. It's nice to see that the Trust has flourished, and gone on to get more sites preserved despite one of my friends having moved to Georgia.

The Trust preserves Revolutionary sites as well. I hadn't been to their website in a long time, and just did a search for it, and found that they have been busy getting several more sites preserved.

South Carolina Battleground Trust

[kaehurowing]

So the Civil War Reenactors group here died because of all this, both Union and Confederate. They basically put on programs for a lot of elementary school kids and they wanted realistic reenactors for both sides. I had gone to a Civil War history presentation they had done, and they knew I was a descendant of a Confederate soldier, so they asked if I was interested in portraying the Confederate side (this was mostly Union territory and so they did not have many Confederate reenactors). I was too busy and not that interested and said no, but later I found out they shut down the group completely because (1) they couldn’t find people to portray Confederates, and (2) the schools objected to having the Confederate flag, Confederate soldiers, etc. This group had integrity and felt they had the obligation to present both sides fairly and so if one side was going to be censored they were just going to stop completely.

[miserare]

I like that!

[Old Sarge]

This weekend I attended the re-enactment in Brooksville, FL. Not a Marxist in sight. US flags from every era stood in the breeze.

The Bride and I spoke with dozens of fellow re-enactors, and came up with one consensus: a major factor in the decline of the reenactments of all eras is that the reenactor population is ageing, and our numbers aren’t being replaced. Generation Snowflake couldn’t care much less about American History, or any history for that matter.

The population of the spectators are also ageing. I was hard pressed to find anyone under thirty, twenty-five at best. The teen contingent there were primarily Boy and Girl Scouts who were part of the event staff.

But despite all that, the event was heart-warming with the displays of patriotism, love of country, and faithful dedication to historical accuracy.

[mass55th]

Thanks for sharing. I know when I was younger, and talked to some of my reenacting friends, they said the cost of all the equipment was very expensive, and kept a lot of people from being able to join. Now it’s old age, and you’re right, the youth of today...most of them anyway, aren’t interested in history, or living history. I didn’t like history as a teen either. To me it was nothing but memorizing dates. Had to take American History three times, junior year, summer school, and senior year high school, yet here I am 54 years later with a Masters in Culture and History, and still with an unsatisfied search for more history. I moved on from the Civil War, and spend a lot of time reading about British history, specifically the Medieval period. I’ve found I have many ancestral connections to Britain and Wales, and I’ve been enjoying being able to learn more about it.